Traveller demands apology for Jimmy Carr joke but insists he ‘shouldn’t be persecuted’

Jimmy Carr 'should make a public apology' says Marshall

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On Tuesday, Richard Madeley and Susanna Reid were joined by comedian Konstantin Kisin and Tik Tok star Michael Marshall on Good Morning Britain. The topic for debate was Jimmy Carr and the new comedy special His Dark Material. During the hour-long Netflix show, the 8 Out of 10 Cats star joked about the death of thousands of gypsies during the Holocaust and joked the genocide was a “positive” event. Guest Michael has branded the punchline “sick” but also insisted he shouldn’t be “persecuted”. 

Konstantin began: “It was only a few years ago Jimmy Carr had another special in which the joke he made about Jews, my people, was ‘They say there is safety in numbers, say that to six million Jews’.

“There was no outrage, there was no attempt to cancel him.

“So, if you want to have comedy in society, you’re going to have to accept that everyone is going to get picked on every now and again. I’m afraid that is the way that it works.”

Richard asked: “What would your reaction be if you turned the joke around and basically said that the slaughter of your people, as you say, on the Jewish people of mostly Europe, was a good thing?”

The ITV guest responded:  “It depends on how it’s delivered. 

“I have no problem with this joke. I think it’s part of a free society. 

“I come from the Soviet Union, that’s where I was born. If you look historically at places that sensor comedy, they’re not good places,” he added. “They’re not the good guys.”

Fellow guest, Michael, who is part of the travelling community had his say on the comedian, he explained: “ I agree with you, right. 

“People shouldn’t have a muzzle on their mouth, everybody’s entitled to freedom of speech.”

Michael continued: “Everybody should be allowed to say what they want to say but in today’s society, shouldn’t people have a better sense [of humour] than want to make jokes about the Holocaust, where lots of people were killed?

“As an adult, you should not want to make jokes over that kind of thing and if you find that funny like that, you got a very sick sense of humour,” he told ITV viewers.

Later, Richard asked Michael what should happen to the I Literally Just Told You star following his remarks. 

He replied: “To be honest with you, I don’t think the man should be persecuted. I don’t think he should have anything done to him, in that sense.

“He should give a public apology, especially from the Roma gypsy community with ancestry who have been in the Holocaust and involved with the Holocaust because I think it’s ridiculous. 

“I think we’ve come a very long way since then, I don’t think it is funny at all.”

Michael later revealed he had put “so much effort” into integrating with society and said business has been the focus, he said: “That’s what it’s about for us.”

At the beginning of the Netflix show, Jimmy issued a “trigger warning” to the audience as he confessed his routine contained “terrible things”.

Jimmy has since responded to the controversy at a gig in Whitley Bay in Tyne and Wear, he said: “I am going to get cancelled, that’s the bad news. The good news is I am going down swinging.

“The joke that ends my career is already out there.”

According to The Mirror, he added: “It’s on YouTube, Netflix or whatever, and it’s fine until one day it f****** isn’t.”

Good Morning Britain airs weekdays on ITV at 6am.

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